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January 27, 2010

iHEAweek 2010 no. 143 (27 Jan)

iHEA’s weekly periodical


This issue of iHEAweek: 27 Jan, 2010

  • Notices
  • Health Economic Network (HEN)
  • Associated Journal Contents
  • Jobs
  • Conferences
  • Education
  • Colophon: Publication Information

NOTICES

Call for Papers: The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice

The Geneva Association Health and Ageing Research Program is pleased to announce a special issue on health of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice to be published in October 2010.

We encourage you to submit contributions related to the following areas:

  • The impact of integrating an ageing population in health insurance systems.
  • New health technologies and insurance.
  • Development of health care systems and the capitalization debate.
  • The interaction of public and private systems in health care provision.
  • Insuring and managing long-term care risks.
  • Health issues for an ageing population in the workplace
  • Climate change and its impact on health and insurance

Suggestions for other topics will be considered by the editor.

All contributions will go through a refereeing process. Papers should be submitted electronically (word or adobe format only) by 1 February 2010 at the latest to Christophe Courbage christophe_courbage@genevaassociation.org.

For further information on The Geneva Papers, visit its web site http://www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry

The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center is pleased to announce that the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry is now updated with data up to and including September 2009.

Visit the CEA Registry at http://www.cearegistry.org.


Health Economic Network/Social Science Research Network

The following is a list of abstract entries in the Health Economics Network (HEN) of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) for the past week. iHEA is a proud sponsor of HEN. HEN encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers from around the world. To view links to the abstracts listed below you may need to register with SSRN for free at http://ssrn.com/hen/index.html.

Demographic Change, Human Capital and Welfare
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1538748
MEA Discussion Paper No. 196-2010
Alexander Ludwig , Thomas Schelkle and Edgar Vogel
University of Cologne - Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences , London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics and University of Mannheim - Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA)
Date Posted: January 27, 2010
Last Revised: January 27, 2010
Working Paper Series

Poverty, Health Expenditure, and Health Status: A Long Term Perspective with Evidence from Nigeria
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540303
Hodo Bassey Riman Sr. , Jude U. Bassey , Esor E. Ibi and Bernard Enya Edu
University of Uyo , Cross River University of Technology , University of Calabar and Cross River University of Technology
Date Posted: January 27, 2010
Last Revised: January 27, 2010
Working Paper Series

How Does Pharmaceutical Advertising Affect Consumer Search?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542934
Lesley Chiou and Catherine Tucker
Occidental College - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)
Date Posted: January 27, 2010
Last Revised: January 27, 2010
Working Paper Series

Paying Primary Health Care Centers for Performance in Rwanda
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1543049
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5190
Paulin Basinga , Paul J. Gertler , Agnes Binagwaho , Agnes L.B. Soucat , Jennifer R. Sturdy and Christel Vermeersch
affiliation not provided to SSRN , University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business , affiliation not provided to SSRN , affiliation not provided to SSRN , affiliation not provided to SSRN and World Bank - Young Professionals Program
Date Posted: January 27, 2010
Last Revised: January 27, 2010

How Beliefs About HIV Status Affect Risky Behaviors: Evidence from Malawi, Second Version
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1543254
PIER Working Paper No. 10-004
Aureo de Paula , Gil Shapira and Petra Todd
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics , University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics
Date Posted: January 27, 2010
Last Revised: January 27, 2010
Working Paper Series

Estimation and Pricing with the Cairns-Blake-Dowd Model of Mortality
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1543258
University of Verona Department of Economics Working Paper No. 65
E. S. Cannon
University of Bristol - Department of Economics
Date Posted: January 27, 2010
Last Revised: January 27, 2010
Working Paper Series

Financial Protection for the Poor in Colombia: The Effects of a Subsidized Health Insurance Scheme
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1541944
Documentos de Trabajo, No. 12
Andres Zambrano and Ramon A. Castano
Universidad del Rosario - Faculty of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Date Posted: January 26, 2010
Last Revised: January 26, 2010
Working Paper Series

Insurance for Poor People: A Tool for Financial Protection (Aseguramiento Para La Población Pobre: Una Herramienta De Protección Financiera)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1541945
Documentos de Trabajo, No. 13
Ramon A. Castano and Andres Zambrano
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Universidad del Rosario - Faculty of Economics
Date Posted: January 26, 2010
Last Revised: January 26, 2010
Working Paper Series

The Hedonic Method: Value of Statistical Life, Wage Compensation, Property Value Compensation
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542072
RESEARCH TOOLS IN NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, A. Batabyal and P. Nijkamp, eds., World Scientific, 2010
Philip E. Graves
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics
Date Posted: January 26, 2010
Last Revised: January 26, 2010
Accepted Paper Series

Healthy Food Outside: Farmers’ Markets, Taco Trucks, and Sidewalk Fruit Vendors
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542359
Gregg W. Kettles
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Date Posted: January 26, 2010
Last Revised: January 26, 2010
Working Paper Series

Explaining the Rise in Educational Gradients in Mortality
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540983
NBER Working Paper No. w15678
David M. Cutler , Fabian Lange , Ellen Meara , Seth Richards and Christopher J. Ruhm
Harvard University - Department of Economics , Yale University - Department of Economics , Harvard Medical School , University of Pennsylvania and University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010
Working Paper Series

Wastin’ Away in Margaritaville? New Evidence on the Academic Effects of Teenage Binge Drinking
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540786
Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 1-22, January 2010
Joseph J. Sabia
American University
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010
Accepted Paper Series

Earthquake Propensity and the Politics of Mortality Prevention
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539868
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5182
Philip Keefer , Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plumper
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) , London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010

Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (Book Review)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540211
Victorian Bar News, Vol. 134, pp. 60-1, Spring 2005
Malcolm McKenzie Park
University of Melbourne - Department of Geomatics
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010
Working Paper Series

Mapping and Matching DNA: Several Legal Complications of ‘Accurate’ Classifications
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540783
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 1, 1994
Aviam Soifer and Miriam Wugmeister
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law and Proskauer, Rose, Goetz, & Mendelsohn
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010
Accepted Paper Series

Owning What You Eat: The Discourse of Food
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540895
DEMOCRACY, ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010
David N. Cassuto
Pace University - School of Law
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010
Accepted Paper Series

The Disability Term: Dignity, Default, and Negative Capability
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1542241
UCLA Law Review, Vol. 47, No. 5, 2000
Aviam Soifer
University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law
Date Posted: January 25, 2010
Last Revised: January 25, 2010
Accepted Paper Series

Health Care Expenditure in Nigeria: Does the Level of Government Spending Really Matter?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540279
Jude U. Bassey , Hodo Bassey Riman Sr. and Bernard Enya Edu
Cross River University of Technology , University of Uyo and Cross River University of Technology
Date Posted: January 24, 2010
Last Revised: January 24, 2010
Working Paper Series

Health Spending, Consumption and Labour Supply over the Life-Cycle: The Effect of Old-Age Security and Annuity Market Imperfections
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540607
Casper Worm Hansen
University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics
Date Posted: January 23, 2010
Last Revised: January 23, 2010
Working Paper Series

Can’t We Just Live Together?: New Evidence on the Effect of Relationship Status on Health
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1539783
Susan L. Averett and Jennifer Kohn
Lafayette College - Department of Economics & Business and Drew University
Date Posted: January 22, 2010
Last Revised: January 22, 2010
Working Paper Series


Associated Journal Contents

PharmacoEconomics

February2010, Volume 28, Issue 2

Leading Article
93-102 Can’t Get No Satisfaction? Will Pay for Performance Help?: Toward an Economic Framework for Understanding Performance-Based Risk-Sharing Agreements for Innovative Medical Products
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=28020&article=00001&type=abstract
Adrian Towse; Louis P. Garrison, Jr

Conference Papers
105-107 We Know Accurately Only When We Know Little
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/Citation/2010/28020/We_Know_Accurately_Only_When_We_Know_Little.2.aspx
Stuart MacLeod; Craig Mitton

Conference Papers
109-111 Principles of Design of Access with Evidence Development Approaches: A Consensus Statement from the Banff Summit
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/Citation/2010/28020/Principles_of_Design_of_Access_with_Evidence.3.aspx
on behalf of the signatories to the Consensus Statement

Conference Papers
113-142 Funding the Unfundable: Mechanisms for Managing Uncertainty in Decisions on the Introduction of New and Innovative Technologies into Healthcare Systems
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=28020&article=00004&type=abstract
Tania Stafinski; Christopher J. McCabe; Devidas Menon

Conference Papers
143-152 Access with Evidence Development Schemes: A Framework for Description and Evaluation
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=28020&article=00005&type=abstract
for and on behalf of the Banff AED Summit

Conference Papers
153-162 Access with Evidence Development: The US Experience
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=28020&article=00006&type=abstract
Penny E. Mohr; Sean R. Tunis

Conference Papers
163-170 Access with Evidence Development in the UK: Past Experience, Current Initiatives and Future Potential
http://adisonline.com/pharmacoeconomics/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=2010&issue=28020&article=00006&type=abstract
Andrew Briggs; Karen Ritchie; Elisabeth Fenwick; Kalipso Chalkidou; Peter Littlejohns


Jobs

Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis/ Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Endowed Chair in Health Equity
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003522.php
February 01, 2010 | Research Chair | Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Applied Health Economist: Ontario Agency for Health Protection & Promotion (OAHPP)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003515.php
February 05, 2010 | Health Economist | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Research Assistant in Health Economics: Unit of Cancer Epidemiology and Centre for Oncologic Prevention, San Giovann
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003562.php
February 05, 2010 | Researcher/Co-ordinator | Location: Turin, Italy

Post Doctorial Research Associate Position, Fellowship in Addiction Research: Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHEOS), University of British Columbia
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003559.php
February 25, 2010 | Post-Doc | Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Senior Lecturer and Lecturer (A/B) in Public Health Economics: University of East Anglia (School of Medicine, Health Policy & Practice)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003561.php
February 18, 2010 | Professorship/Lectureship | Location: Norwich, England, UK

Associate Outcomes Researcher
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003560.php
March 11, 2010 | Researcher/Co-ordinator | Location: Houston, Texas, USA

Senior Health Economist: The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003558.php
February 07, 2010 | Health Economist | Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Research Fellows/Research Assistants x3 (Permanent positions): Health Economics Research Group (HERG)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003557.php
February 22, 2010 | Fellowship/Studentship | Location: London, UK

Reader/Professor (permanent position): Health Economics Research Group (HERG)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003556.php
February 22, 2010 | Professorship/Lectureship | Location: London, UK

Health Economics, Sr. Manager: Amgen
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003555.php
March 11, 2010 | Manager | Location: Thousand Oaks, California, USA

Health Economics and outcomes Research Scientist
http://www.healtheconomics.org/jobs/003549.php
February 02, 2010 | Industry | Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


Conferences

8th World iHEA Congress on Health Economics: Transforming Health & Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003434.php
July 10, 2011 | Health Economics | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

8th European Conference on Health Economics (ECHE 2010)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003326.php
July 07, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Helsinki, Finland

Health, Healthcare and Behavior: 3rd Biennial Conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/002903.php
June 20, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Ithaca, New York, USA

10th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - Mental Health Policy and Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003565.php
March 25, 2011 | | Location: Venice, Italy

Call for Abstracts: 10th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - Mental Health Policy and Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003564.php
October 30, 2010 | Workshop | Location: Venice, Italy

Call for Abstracts: International Applied Econometrics Association Conference: Econometrics of Healthy Human Resources
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003546.php
January 28, 2010 | Econometrics | Location: Rome, Italy

Call for Papers: First CEISUC International Workshop: Demand for Health and Health Care
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003531.php
February 15, 2010 | Workshop | Location: Coimbra, Portugal

Health It Summit For Government Leaders
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003518.php
February 04, 2010 | Pharmaceuticals | Location: Washington, DC, USA

 National Health Information Exchange (HIE) Summit
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003517.php
February 04, 2010 | Health Communications | Event location: Washington, DC, USA

The Eighteenth National HIPAA Summit
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003516.php
February 02, 2010 | Health Care | Location: Washington, DC, USA

Call For Papers: 11th European Health Economics Workshop
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003507.php
February 10, 2010 | Workshop | Location: Lund, Sweden

Call For Abstracts: Society for Medical Decision Making 13th European Meeting 2010, Public Health Decision Making
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003500.php
February 12, 2010 | Public Health | Location: Hall i.T. / Innsbruck, Austria

Call for Abstracts: First Annual Midwestern Health Economics Study Group Conference
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003464.php
February 01, 2010 | Health Economics | Location: Chicago Illinois, USA

Call for Papers: Health. Happiness. Inequality: Modelling the Pathways between Income Inequality and Health
http://www.healtheconomics.org/conferences/003374.php
January 31, 2010 | Econometrics | Location: Darmstadt, Germany


Education

Three PhD Scholarships in Economics and Management Science: University of Southern Denmark
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003566.php
March 24, 2010 | PhD | Location: Odense, Denmark

Advanced Modelling Methods for Health Economic Evaluation (3-day Workshop)
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003563.php
July 28, 2010 | Short Course | Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Modelling for Health Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003554.php
March 08, 2010 | Short Course | Location: Birmingham, UK

Econometric Analysis in Health Economics
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003535.php
February 15, 2010 | PhD | Location: Lausanne, Switzerland

Systematic reviews for HTA and Pharmacoeconomics: their role in reimbursement decisions. An introductory course
http://www.healtheconomics.org/education/003508.php
March 01, 2010 | Training | Location: University of York, York, UK


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